by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 10, 2013 | Blog
Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation's most fabulously privileged and everyone else. How unequal have workplaces in the United States become? Our best answer happens to come...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 3, 2013 | Blog
People who cut food stamps — and gut child labor laws — most all had empathy when they came into the world. So what squeezed the empathy out? Analysts are pointing to inequality. Scrooge has come early this year. We’re kicking our Tiny Tims. This holiday...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 27, 2013 | Blog
America's top execs don't have the time to celebrate. They're too busy waging a corporate holy war against what may be the most promising check yet on executive pay excess. In 1930, an obscure lawsuit against Bethlehem Steel unearthed a piece of corporate data that...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 21, 2013 | Economy
A tiny tax on global personal wealth over $1 million could ensure that no child anywhere on the planet has to live in extreme poverty. The folks at Rolls-Royce have just opened a brand-new dealership — in the poverty-stricken Philippines. This nation of nearly 100...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 14, 2013 | Blog
If the Supreme Court chooses to erase our remaining post-Watergate campaign finance reforms, Richard Nixon's scandalous reign may come to seem — thanks to growing inequality — mere kid's play. The U.S. Supreme Court last week heard oral arguments in a case that could...
